After an abysmal showing at APF Equipped Nationals, I'm now in an off season mode of training. Currently, I am in a hypertrophy block focusing on quality of movement and time under tension. This will build the foundation for my strength phases to prepare for WPC World's in November.

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Due to some of the weekend stuff my training schedule this week is needed to be accelerated a bit. I wanted to ensure that I had a day off before I got back into powerlifting mode, so that means having Thursday off and training Friday instead of Saturday. As such, arms fell on Monday this week, and done at the rec center. Given that it's my final true arm day, I decided to really crank the volume and make it a fun one. This blew my arms up and made washing my hair (or lack thereof) not enjoyable that evening.


Items Used in this Training Session

Warm Up Cats & Camels - 10 Quadraped T-Spine Ext - 10 each Band Dislocations - 10 Alternating Band Dislocations - 10 each Band Pressdowns - 15 Band Straight Arm Lat Pulldowns - 15 Band Face Pulls - 15 Single Arm Band Fly - 15 each Band Rows - 15 Band Curls - 15

A1) V Bar Pressdowns 5x15 A2) Reverse EZ Bar Curls 5x10

B1) EZ Bar Skull Crushers 5x10 B2) DB Curls 5x15

C1) Machine Tricep Extensions 5x20 C2) Machine Preacher Curls 5x20

D1) Dips 5 sets of failure D2) Chin Ups 5 sets of failure


Brandon Smitley
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